44 RED DEER. 



these tints must be alluded to. Gradually 

 the hues deepened as they were gazed at, 

 till the great hillside grew aglow with the 

 light they reflected. 



All the view the slopes, the wood, the 

 heather was instinct with the presence of 

 the wild deer ; though sheltering in har- 

 bour from the heat, they were there. They 

 had passed under the green larches, which 

 were scarcely high enough to give me 

 shade the sun at noon looked down be- 

 tween the trees they had drunk from the 

 stream by the sallow, whose dark boughs 

 overhung it. I could have stayed and 

 dreamed there by the splashing water, but 

 there were yet more distances to be got 

 over. I climbed up the rocky side, and 

 from thence could see along the Badge- 

 worthy Valley to the dull red precipice of 

 rocky fragments that overlooks the Lynn. 

 Passing more undulations of the moor there 



